excogitate
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I wouldn't put the question to you for the world, and expose you to the inconvenience of having to—a— excogitate an answer.
From Washington Square by Henry James
No other author would have taken the trouble to excogitate him, and then treat him so badly.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West
And he had four days a week in which to excogitate new methods of creating a fortune.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Pending her appearance, he filled the spirit-stove, put the kettle on to boil, and lighting a cigarette, sat himself down to watch the pot and excogitate his several problems.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance
And to speak generally, in regard of things celestial he set his face against attempts to excogitate the machinery by which the divine power formed its several operations.
From The Memorabilia by Henry Graham Dakyns
Last month, having excogitated 290 questions and created perhaps the most elaborate thinking test ever devised, they stunned a group of the nation's smartest high-school graduates with it.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the most perfect form of absolutism ever yet excogitated in any man's brains.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
It is strange that any two ministers could have excogitated so monstrous a proposition, and that both should be called "Divine."
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
In a fourth a system of idealistic metaphysics is being excogitated; in a fifth the impossibility of metaphysics is being shown.
From Pragmatism by William James
He rubbed the warm pipe bowl against his cheek and excogitated the matter in deep humility.
From Septimus by William John Locke
It features essays by 22 scholars, all solemnly excogitating on such weighty matters as whether the horseshoes in his pictures are from dray horses or Thoroughbreds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence, too, it is that we hunt through the mental train, excogitating from the present or some other, and from similar or contrary or coadjacent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
An execrable Triumvirate—a scandalum magnatum to all public bodies: I suppose they and their adherents are now sitting in Pandemonium, excogitating their diabolical machinations against us.
From The Politician Out-Witted by Montrose Jonas Moses
He set about excogitating an alphabet; but actually forgot to give names to his letters, which afterwards baffled him before literary men.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
It is a marvellous thing that they who engage in excogitating this kind of double-meaning literature about bimetallism, should suppose that the people can any longer be deluded with it.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
